Patents Assigned to QubicaAMF Worldwide, LLC.
  • Patent number: 10779646
    Abstract: A modular furniture system capable of being arranged in different configurations in a settee area of a bowling center, for example, is disclosed. The furniture system includes at least one modular furniture element with a fastening mechanism which includes a first assembly and a second assembly. The first assembly of the fastening mechanism includes an engaging element which extends through at least one component of the first assembly and attaches to a component of the second assembly of an adjacent modular furniture element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: QubicaAMF Worldwide, LLC
    Inventors: Massimo Baraldi, Tommaso Parisi, Samuel Ramesh Namala, Leroy T. Warren, Charles A. Lee
  • Publication number: 20200222790
    Abstract: A string bowling pin as described herein incorporates one or more improvements that extend the time between maintenance and repair events that might otherwise be required at the place where the string leads from the top of the pin. A free-floating bushing improves the longevity of the string and pin connection. In another example, a radiused opening at the top of the pin improves the longevity of the string and pin connection. Also, both the improved bushing and radiused opening at the top of the pin, either alone or together, make the pin less likely to tangle with other strings and pins during use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: QubicaAMF Worldwide, LLC
    Inventors: LEROY THOMAS WARREN, JR., ERIC MARK WATTS
  • Publication number: 20150196127
    Abstract: A seating system with an elastically moveable backrest capable of being arranged in different configurations in a settee area of a bowling center is disclosed. The seating system includes a configurable seating arrangement including at least one bench seat configured to accommodate one or more users and a respective number of elastically moveable backrests for each of the one or more users. The configurable seating arrangement further includes a bracket assembly which attaches the respective number of elastically moveable backrests to the at least one bench seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Applicant: QubicaAMF Worldwide, LLC
    Inventors: MASSIMO BARALDI, TOMMASO PARISI
  • Patent number: 8734263
    Abstract: A prefabricated flooring system used in a section of a bowling lane such as an approach section. The flooring system includes a plurality of wooden boards having a longitudinal axis. The plurality of wooden boards each having substantially flat side edges along the longitudinal axis. Interior boards of the plurality of wooden boards are bonded together by an adhesive applied on the side edges and two of the outermost boards of the plurality of boards are bonded only on one side edge by the adhesive to adjacent corresponding interior boards to form a preformed approach section of wooden boards. In one aspect, the boards have a thickness of approximately that of the bowling lane. In another aspect, the preformed approach section has a width greater than that of the bowling lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Qubicaamf Worldwide LLC
    Inventors: Gary J. Ford, Mark D. Kilpatrick, Phillip W. Whitaker, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8602906
    Abstract: A bowling pin including a body having a head, a neck, a ball line portion, and a base all integrally formed of a synthetic material. The body includes a hollow area and a longitudinal axis of the hollow area extends generally perpendicularly to a substantially planar bottom surface of the base. A method of manufacturing a bowling pin includes providing a mold shell having a mold cavity shaped substantially as a bowling pin, disposing a mandrel inside a mold cavity, introducing material into the mold cavity, cooling the material inside the mold cavity, removing the mandrel from the mold cavity, removing the material from the mold cavity, and cooling the material outside the mold cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Qubicaamf Worldwide LLC
    Inventors: Wayne White, Joe Infantino, Rodney C. Mallette, Ron Mizzi
  • Patent number: 8500567
    Abstract: An elevator assembly having a looped track assembly and a chain assembly having rollers which roll on the looped track assembly. The chain assembly includes spaced apart pin holders extending from the chain. A sprocket drive assembly engages the chain assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: QUBICAAMF Worldwide LLC
    Inventors: Samuel R. Namala, LeRoy T. Warren, Jr., Charles A. Lee, Mark D. Kilpatrick
  • Patent number: 8375557
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods of beveling gripping holes of bowling balls. A method includes creating a bevel at an edge of a hole of the bowling ball by removing material from the bowling ball using a rotary tool equipped with a shaping bit that extends into the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Qubicaamf Worldwide LLC
    Inventors: Clifton E. Adair, Jody R. Bullis
  • Patent number: 8083603
    Abstract: A bowling bumper system is provided. The bowling bumper system and more particularly an actuator or actuator assembly is decoupled from the bumpers, themselves, and configured to move the bumpers into an extended or retracted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: QUBICAAMF Worldwide LLC
    Inventors: Samuel R. Namala, David A. McCall, Charles Anton Lee, Patrick J. Reitelbach
  • Patent number: 7988898
    Abstract: A bowling pin including a body having a head, a neck, a ball line portion, and a base all integrally formed of a synthetic material. The body includes a hollow area and a longitudinal axis of the hollow area extends generally perpendicularly to a substantially planar bottom surface of the base. A method of manufacturing a bowling pin includes providing a mold shell having a mold cavity shaped substantially as a bowling pin, disposing a mandrel inside a mold cavity, introducing material into the mold cavity, cooling the material inside the mold cavity, removing the mandrel from the mold cavity, removing the material from the mold cavity, and cooling the material outside the mold cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: QUBICAAMF Worldwide LLC.
    Inventors: Wayne White, Joe Infantino, Rodney C. Mallette, Ron Mizzi
  • Patent number: 7686698
    Abstract: A bowling pin storage bin assembly for use as part of a bowling pin delivery system of a pinspotter apparatus, as well as a method of manufacturing such bin. The storage bin is molded as a one-piece article having a plurality of cavities or pockets for storing bowling pins in an essentially horizontal plane above a pin spotter and for delivering the pins to a plurality of pin cups or a pin spotter for spotting on a pin deck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: QUBICAAMF Worldwide LLC
    Inventors: Samuel R. Namala, LeRoy T. Warren, Jr., Charles A. Lee, Paul Becker
  • Patent number: D548471
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: QubicaAMF Worldwide, LLC.
    Inventors: Gary J Ford, William Bredlow, Brian Williamson
  • Patent number: D703971
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: QubicaAMF Worldwide, LLC
    Inventors: Tommaso Parisi, Gian Luca Ferrari
  • Patent number: D717552
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: QubicaAMF Worldwide, LLC
    Inventors: Massimo Baraldi, Tommaso Parisi, Michele Oca
  • Patent number: D717553
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: QubicaAMF Worldwide, LLC
    Inventors: Massimo Baraldi, Tommaso Parisi, Michele Oca
  • Patent number: D720403
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: QubicaAMF Worldwide, LLC
    Inventors: Tommaso Parisi, Massimo Baraldi, Leroy T. Warren, Jr., Charles A. Lee
  • Patent number: D722237
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: QubicaAMF Worldwide, LLC
    Inventors: Massimo Baraldi, Tommaso Parisi
  • Patent number: D722238
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: QubicaAMF Worldwide, LLC
    Inventors: Massimo Baraldi, Tommaso Parisi
  • Patent number: D722443
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: QubicaAMF Worldwide, LLC
    Inventors: Massimo Baraldi, Tommaso Parisi, Michele Oca
  • Patent number: D722445
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: QubicaAMF Worldwide, LLC
    Inventors: Massimo Baraldi, Tommaso Parisi, Michele Oca
  • Patent number: D725926
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: QubicaAMF Worldwide, LLC
    Inventors: Massimo Baraldi, Tommaso Parisi, Michele Oca